I'm still on version 2 of the plugin (work related disruption to my Indigo "habit" for the last 6 months or more).

I'm just starting to catch up and upgrade plugins (and need to put mine in the store). Read the guideAHB 3.x etc, and am going to start afresh.

Will look at routines, but has anyone tried and tested the Alexa "Groups" yet? It appears Alexa can now be made room specific! I've caught up on most of the forum, but didn't see any mention I don't think.

Has anyone tried this (apologise if i'm way behind the curve!), and does it work well with the plugin - I've been reading here....

I have 3 light devices in my living room for example. I can control them all individually by nam3 from any echo in the house. I have a device called living room lights that is an indigo action group that lets me turn on/off the lights from any echo, ("turn on living room lights")then I have all 3 devices in a room group in Alexa with the living room echo where I can say "turn on lights" in the living room. If I'm in the kitchen and say"turn on lights" the 4 kitchen light devices come on

I was looking to remove the need to prefix Alexa commands with the room name, ie sitting room tv...

Heres an example

I have four Alexis in four different rooms - I can only be heard from one Alexa at any time. I have 4 tv's and 4 lights controlled by indigo. Each room therefore has one tv, one light and one Alexa.

I initially created four groups, one for each room, each group with an indigo controlled TV.

I wondered if I could use the group feature to say "turn on the TV" in any one room (rather than turn on the xxxxxx TV). This can be achieved by saying "turn on the office". "Turn on the office TV" still works as this is the plugin name. Turn on the TV of course doesn't.

However, when you add each of the lights into each of the groups and issue a command, both the light and tv turn on/off. ie they act as a group.

It does however appear that the plugin recognises which Alexa issued the command, so it may actually be possible (although I note from reading a post last night that on occasions the instructions are issued from another Alexa).

Whilst you can create groups from the web interface, as I understand it, creating groups from the App allows you to allocate a specific Alexa to the group. That way when you walk into any room with an Alexa (and with lights) you can say turn the lights on - Alexa will turn ALL of the lights on in that room, that are in that group.